Books by Rex Butler

A collection of documents following the long and often controversial career of "Art & Text", one of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s. This book offers an account of the advantages and pitfalls of publishing an art magazine.

This introductory text aims to go beyond Baudrillard's thoughts on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. Through close readings of his texts, Butler argues that we must seek to judge Baudrillard in his own terms.